Welcome to the Wild West of Salon Reviews
If you’ve ever worked in a salon, you already know—half your job is hair, the other half is dodging drama. In this episode of Sh!t I Told My Hairdresser, Jason and Jack tackle the new, unfiltered world of salon “reviews” — and spoiler alert — it’s not happening on Yelp anymore.
It’s happening on TikTok.
Gone are the days when angry clients fired off a one-star Yelp rant because their “icy blonde” came out “too beige.” Now, they’re filming storytime videos with dramatic music and crying filters while tagging your salon. Welcome to the new reality of reputation management in 2025.
The Death of Yelp (and the Rise of Petty TikTok Reviews)
Jason kicks things off by admitting that Yelp emailed him asking if he wanted to “advertise.” Cue the eye roll. Because apparently, Yelp still thinks it’s 2012.
He explains that Yelp’s old model—paying to hide bad reviews—was basically a hair-salon pyramid scheme. The more you paid, the fewer bad reviews the public saw. “They bury your one-stars if you’re in the right tier,” Jason says. “But if you’re not paying up? Boom—there’s your bad perm for the world to see.”
But as both stylists point out, nobody reads Yelp anymore. People want instant visuals, raw reactions, and receipts. That’s why TikTok has become the new Yelp.
How TikTok Replaced Yelp for Hair Salons
Instead of typing up angry paragraphs, clients now upload video reviews—and these posts hit millions of views faster than a stylist can say “toner refresh.”
Jason explains:
“If you type in a salon name on TikTok, every post tagged to that salon pops up. People don’t even need to say the name. Locals can tell just by the background decor where it was filmed.”
That means a single viral video from a disgruntled client can make—or break—a business. The stylists agree: TikTok reviews are raw, powerful, and sometimes downright ridiculous.
When Clients Don’t Read the Fine Print
One viral story Jason mentions involves a brunette client who tried to book with a stylist known only for blonding. The stylist’s Instagram clearly stated, “I specialize in blonde hair,” yet the client—insistent on being the exception—still demanded an appointment.
When told she wasn’t the right fit, the woman lost it, posting a TikTok rant accusing the salon of being “elitist.”
Jack laughs, “That’s like walking into a sushi bar and asking for a cheeseburger, then leaving a bad review because they wouldn’t make one.”
The stylists explain that specialization isn’t snobbery—it’s professionalism. Some stylists are cutters. Others are colorists. Some focus on vivid colors or extensions. “It’s like medicine,” Jason says. “You don’t go to a dermatologist for open-heart surgery.”
The “Slave to Praise” Problem
Many clients, the duo joke, are “slaves to praise”—people who don’t actually want good service, they just want attention. Jason explains that these are the same people who post their entire salon meltdown on TikTok just for the dopamine of validation.
“They want likes more than they want layers,” Jack jokes.
It’s a new kind of salon sabotage — weaponized storytelling. Instead of fixing the problem privately, clients take it to TikTok for sympathy points, sometimes twisting the story just to make the stylist look bad.
Yelp Is Dead — Google and TikTok Are the Future
Jason and Jack agree that Google and TikTok are now the top discovery tools for salons. Yelp has become irrelevant because people no longer trust filtered reviews.
TikTok videos, though messy and unfiltered, feel real. And authenticity—whether it’s a disaster color correction or a perfect balayage—is what sells.
“People want to see the result,” Jason says. “They don’t want to read about it. They want to watch the stylist work, hear the tone, feel the vibe.”
And that, friends, is why TikTok is the new Yelp.
Lessons for Stylists and Clients
For stylists:
Set boundaries. Make it clear what services you specialize in.
Require deposits or credit cards for booking. It weeds out the no-shows.
Don’t fear TikTok—use it. Show your work, post tutorials, and build your reputation before someone else defines it for you.
For clients:
Read the damn bio.
Respect your stylist’s expertise.
If something goes wrong, talk to them directly before posting a viral video.
Why Hairdressers Make the Best Storytellers
Behind every balayage, there’s a backstory. Behind every tone correction, there’s chaos. That’s why Sh!t I Told My Hairdresser is more than just a podcast—it’s the unfiltered truth about life behind the chair, told by people who’ve seen it all.
Hosts Jason and Jack aren’t influencers pretending to know the industry. They’re real stylists with decades of hands-on experience, celebrity clientele, and the scars (and receipts) to prove it.
That’s what gives this podcast EEAT power: Expertise, Experience, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. When they talk about salon drama, they’re not guessing—they lived it.
💬 Listen, Laugh, and Stay Shitty
If you’ve ever been personally victimized by a Yelp review, a late client, or a “can you fit me in real quick?” text—this episode is for you.
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Q: Why are people using TikTok instead of Yelp for salon reviews?
A: TikTok gives real, visual, unfiltered reviews that show the stylist’s work and personality—way more engaging than typed complaints.
Q: What makes Sh!t I Told My Hairdresser different from other comedy podcasts?
A: It’s hosted by real hairstylists who’ve worked in the industry for decades—so every outrageous story is 100% real salon tea.
Q: How can I get my story featured on the podcast?
A: Visit shititoldmyhairdresser.com and send your story or voicemail through the green mic icon.
Q: Is TikTok good or bad for hairstylists?
A: Both. It’s incredible for exposure—but it can also destroy reputations overnight. That’s why authenticity (and good lighting) matter.
Oh, fuck me. I have Joanne and Mary back to back today. Fucking hate these two.
Well, it's a good thing you had your coffee with Jesus this morning. You'll be fine. Aleida.
Hello and welcome back to Shit I told my hairdresser,
Hello?
and talk some shit to you guys. That's what we do best, it seems
Are we?
yeah, I think
Yeah. Okay, good.
Hey guys, thank you so much. Uh, [00:01:00] tell all your friends about us. You guys been doing a really good job about that. Really good job on the, uh, TikTok and on the Instagram YouTube. yes. Going through and really, uh, doubling down and listening and telling all your friends. So please tell 10 people that you like and, uh, 200 that you hate about the show because, uh, you doing a fantastic job helping us grow it. And, uh, give us some of your stories. Get over on the, uh, shit I told my hairdresser.com. Send us an email, give us something funny. You're doing a great job about that. uh, let's get started. What do you say, Jack? Do you have any corrections today or.
Um,
done lying to everyone? Because remember,
not yet
stories. We tell all true
Had any, had anybody die this last week.
no,
Not that I can think of. Okay. Maybe next week then. Um, yeah. Uh,
deaths are, are there any death predictions?
well, I don't know. hose, just, [00:02:00] come, I mean out of nowhere. So,
Okay,
um,
well your
we're not.
playing, like playing darts or kind of not really on the bullseye half the time here, so, or majority of the time it seems like, so
Well, that's fair to say. I think. Um, so maybe next week there will be,
I think, uh, this week I kind of wanted to talk about, uh, reviews because I, I,
Hmm mm-hmm.
got on, I got this email from Yelp saying like, Hey, you should go through and advertise with us, and I have you, when's the last
I mean,
Yelp?
not in a long time. and I'll tell you why. um, I've made it too hard, to sign in or something was a hassle, I didn't do it, you know, so like I'll, coat a Yelp or somehow accidentally coat a Yelp and then. Realize me over to their, app, and I don't want to be on it.
And so then I just like stop and I go take a look at Google.
Yep. [00:03:00] Because I mean, to tell you the
That's what everyone's,
Yelp is
what I think. Yeah. I, I, I don't
like,
think it even matters anyway. It's, It's not even real. So like a lot of companies, have them take off any nasty
reviews that
had a
they don't like.
me like, you know, the, oh, well, the higher the tier, the more we can go through and help you on some of those, negative reviews. And I'm like, I don't have any negative reviews,
What do you mean hire the tier?
so you have to pay to advertise on this. So they want you to pay to advertise.
Yeah,
it's like when someone's looking up your competition, your page pops up.
So that way they'll click onto you to see your business. Google kind of does that on
they.
but
Yeah,
definitely does
I do. Yeah. So if
so the more that you pay, you can choose like what people actually see,
yeah.
really horrible reviews. Like if you pay enough, one ever sees, Bad ones, I guess. Right.
they're gone. Or they'll bury them. So you're not looking at
[00:04:00] See
or something like that, you know? So, yeah. There's ways to do it. And that it was, it was hinted to me though, when I was talking to them. 'cause I was like, I don't wanna advertise. I
someone who's working there. Oh, I see.
It was someone who,
Yeah.
person who is telling me this and I'm like, no. I don't think so, they're dead. No one, I don't know any, unless you're really pissed off and you just really want to bitch about shit. then you go to Yelp and you write a
Like it's a good outlet and someone will read it and then someone will take it off of there, right?
Exactly. You
Yeah. Um.
And half the time that people who are living these bad reviews are really angry. it seems like English is not even their first language half the time. You know, there's so many like typos and you know, all
Yeah.
on there, you know, it's like, like
Um,
are soon some colors we do, you know?
And it's like, what?
geez.
Oh yeah. There was one I was reading, it was like, here are soon colors we do in our salon. I was like, what [00:05:00] the hell?
What is that supposed to mean? Oh, they're,
just got
they're just not
up, or
themselves and they're just, oh, how lazy is that? so like, here's what I do with say that I am looking up arrest run or something. I'll, what rating is and, and see if it's even worth. Looking deeper into it, you know, it's like if, say that it's a okay, that's pretty good.
Yeah.
Um, how many five star ratings on there and then how many ones stars? If there's a lot of one tars, I look at 'em and see if it's all the same.
That'll mean it's most likely there's an issue. You know? the ones I really read though are, the threes,
Okay.
more accurate.
Yeah.
People who write like a, Reese usually means, you know,
Right.
They have issues with something maybe. but that's how I am also, you know, I don't give like
Yeah,
five or whatever, you know,
yeah. But if it's like a one, you know what I mean? It's like normally someone's on there [00:06:00] like, you know, they didn't want me to go through and feed my pet ferret at the table, or you know, some shit like
how dare them?
Stupid crap. They're always this
that's what I mean. only. Reason I would even look at one star is if, they all have that same issue, and maybe it just means something off of Amazon, that I'm buying, if, they all like break after a week, okay, maybe I'm not gonna buy that one. but if it's like, oh my, lender only lasted or seven months. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah.
that's how it works. $20, you know, and so I don't know shit.
I normally, I don't read the reviews, you know? But if I do look at 'em as it's gonna be on Google now. 'cause Google doesn't pull that shit. They won't just go through and pay them and then take shit off at least. I don't know if they do or not, but as far as I know, that's not the case. But
on my analytics, when I take a look at it, it's more of like people looking for my phone number. It's like be a hundred [00:07:00] something. Looking for the phone number, 80 something. People look for directions, and then it's like three people read reviews. Okay. And so it's usually people don't do that anymore.
Yeah.
it's so, it's just so in your face. People are not doing that shit anymore because even Google sent me a thing the other day saying like, Hey, if you refer our Google reviews when someone will pay you for it, I'm like, no, I don't wanna do that, number one. Number two, really? So I, maybe they are going that
Some of them do. I, would as like with hair salons, you know, they want to say like a four and a half at least, you know, and, Yeah.
you want that on there. But that's a normal number. Now if you had a two or three. Okay, well, people notice that.
Yeah,
Doesn't look good.
But um, people are now turning. To the TikTok and to the, uh, Instagram, and now that TikTok has become the new Yelp, for hairdressers.
So then how [00:08:00] would you look up your, salon or somewhere? How would you find out on there?
Oh, you just go
You, you dislike?
the salon and all, everything pops up that's associated with that salon.
Mm-hmm.
people will say like, Hey, I'm from like Scottsdale, Arizona, or I am from Boise, Idaho, and I got my hair done at the salon. Some people will say the name, some people won't, but you can kind
Hmm.
if you're from that area what salon they're talking about. that has been the new trend. Now it seems like that people are going online and making a video about them getting their hair done, and so it's become like the new Yelp online. So if you wanna go through and find out about a certain hair salon,
Yeah, it's, it's, it's a new way. I would that you wanna do it as another option, you know, on top of glancing at the rating. Don't mess with reading anything, you know, that's maybe a waste of time. Uh. who's who in these is it sort of like how you're
These are clients.
Yeah, but
are are, are
[00:09:00] off.
just like, what are they pissed off at though?
You know, it's like,
well,
uh,
of it though. I, I
somebody looked at me weird.
I was looking at
No one's.
some people will get pissed off because they didn't get the color that they wanted. Fair enough. You know what I mean? It's like go back to the salon and say like, Hey, please fix my color fight the bill or something like that.
Yeah.
and post all this shit online to go through and be like, Hey, look how bad the, I don't know. You know what I mean? But was paying attention to two that I was watching, and this one woman called the salon and wanted to get an appointment with like two specific girls. She wanted to see and these girls only book online or on Instagram and that's it. And so she was telling everyone that she went to I Instagram and saw their work and it wasn't exactly what she wanted. 'cause she's a brunette. And these girls that said on there, I do Blonding. This is what I [00:10:00] specialize in. But she still wanted an appointment with one of these girls.
Yeah.
is, but it was on there saying that this is what I only do. And it
Okay.
please, and then please like, you know, reach out to me on Instagram to get an appointment. She goes, well, why the fuck do I have to do that? And it's like, wait a minute. girl's telling you that she specializes in one thing, but you're a brunette, but you were referred to the salon. You can't get an appointment with one of the girls because that's not what she does,
Right. Yeah. Why does.
angry about that.
Why did she want someone who doesn't do her type of hair?
I don't that.
making this TikTok about
Maybe that's why, maybe that's why he has it set up like that, is to weed out these fuckers who don't pay attention
Correct.
to what's written on there. She's like, I want. I want, you know? So,
And so
yeah, that's [00:11:00] exactly why
same thing. I'm all, it's because of people like you. That's why they have all this
she wants to
or on their Instagram.
weed them out. Yeah. The look at her hair and it's like, I'm not for you.
Exactly.
and somebody else may not do that. You know, it's like else booking it them. They may get talked into it. Obviously that's happened. it's an issue. So this is her way of solving, solving an issue.
It forces you to go online and actually follow all the steps they need to do. 'cause there's a lot of people that wanna pick up the phone and not put a credit card down and not show up for appointments, and so
Right.
these people out. I like to
Mm-hmm.
as well though, too. Anybody who says like, oh, I don't wanna leave a credit card down. Well, you can't have
Okay. Okay.
That's fine. You know, it's just kinda like, well, I don't
Well, I.
putting my credit card down online. And I go, do you buy things online? Like do you ever use Amazon? Yeah. Well same fucking thing.
they want to like [00:12:00] not show up if they feel like it,
Exactly.
that's what it is.
pissed off about,
Making them, uh,
keep appointments.
Is that what.
expectations as well though too of what they want. And when someone says, I don't do that, and it's just like, well, why? You're a hairdresser. should cut hair, do nails, do color.
Right. Yeah.
everything a cosmetologist does because that's on, that's what I've been told a co, a cosmetologist does. And it's like not all of us do that. Some of us specialize. Huh, imagine
it's a doctor? You know? It's like
or
not everyone is, um. Right. Yeah. Well, they have interests, you know, like someone's interested in personal injury or corporate or whatever it is, you know? Uh,
But that's.
lawyer.
Well, litigators, I mean, they, there's all, you know, corporate attorneys. I mean, I've dealt with all that shit before, you know, and it's like I pay for someone to specialize in a certain field, and that's it. It's the same [00:13:00] thing with our industry, and we're letting people know, like, Hey, if these girls are telling you, all I do is blonding, and if you're a brunette and you
Mm-hmm.
roots, they're not gonna do it.
That's not what they're in business for. And then she's pissed off that she can't get an appointment with them until like weeks in advance. I don't understand why I can't get
Find, someone who does your type of hair really well.
Yeah.
Why won't she do that?
I don't know. But she just wanted, here's the thing, this is the type of person who is just like a slave to praise. And that's why she got on TikTok. You know what I mean? To go through and get everyone to kind of like jump on the bandwagon with her to go through and slam little hairstylist that didn't wanna do her hair,
Yeah.
you know?
And
She wants attention.
That's all that it is. She's a slave to
Yeah.
And it's like, you better be my expectations. It's like, I don't do that. What expectations do you want me to meet? I'm
All of them.
do that. Exactly.
Hers? Yeah.
But yeah, that's the thing. It's like, you [00:14:00] know, you're, if, if that's the way you're gonna be and you expect the world to go through and bend a knee to your expectations, dude, you're not living in reality. You're gonna be in a war with reality the entire time. And that's just not how it fucking works. But I, like you and I, we specialize in just cutting hair. That's
Right. Yeah. the way it is here, you know, most, all the hairdressers and this whole city, they just do everything and. I'm kidding. More people, for, haircuts who I had, the person that colors it normally cuts it and they don't like it. So now they're coming. mean, and, they don't know how, to.
Tell the colorist they're having their haircuts somewhere else. You know, it's like they got, uh, scared about it, you know, it's like, maybe hurting feelings or something, I don't know. But,
they know that they're not good at cutting hair, coloring hair. Yes.
Yeah.
I, I don't, I don't,
stick to that. Just specialize.
that's
Yeah.
that's the thing. But some people are getting angry that people are just [00:15:00] specializing, And they're like, well, you should be. 'cause I've had clients like, why don't you do hair color? I'm not any good at it.
That, that's my reason.
Do you like
Why don't you do hair color? Yeah.
Then if I did your color, I probably fucked that up pretty well, so
tell them I like it never did, which means I will never become good at it. Something I'm not interested in. I was interested in haircutting,
so that's how it works and, So it's like, do you want me to do your, to your highlights?
I really messed them up like in the nineties when I was 18 years old and swore I would never do it again.
You're doing really good at though. I am one. Good. Really at one color that's black. can do black
Like, yeah, yeah,
black? Come
you're the best.
Yeah. I'll make you all gothic. I mean some 6-year-old gothic lady, you know what I mean? Need some black lipstick too, you know? But that's the thing. People specialize. Don't get pissed off that we're not going through and [00:16:00] doing and getting on Yelp or on Instagram and saying, you know, like, Hey, you're making me go through all these hoops. And it's like, no, we're not making you go through hoops. It's that you expect us to do something that what you want us to do.
And you think in your head that we should be doing this for you. So drop the expectation, whatever you're attached with, whatever's in your head that you think we should be doing, stop it 'cause we're not gonna fucking do it. Because if we did, we'd probably fuck you up. Go somewhere else.
And now we're back.
All right, so you guys have been doing a great job at sending us stuff. We did get a DM on the TikTok. This one comes from Perry. And Perry, your DM actually reminded me of another story, but we're gonna go with yours first because it seemed like, uh, you got a little bit of a raw deal from, uh, the owner of the salon you used to work for.
So. Perry says, Hey, I've been working the salon for 14 years [00:17:00] and same old clients, same old haircuts. I can do most of them in my sleep. One of my regular comes in, sweet old lady,
sounds great,
sweet older lady. She's like, but it is basically the exact same haircut every time she comes in. I can totally do this in my sleep. So one day she sits in my chair, she says, you know, you haven't been cutting my hair the way you used to. And I'm like, excuse me. She's like, you've been having, you've had the same haircut for the past like 20 years.
She's like, I know what I'm doing. He goes, no, that's not the same. But she was very serious about it and very insistent.
Hmm.
Right after that, the owner butts in outta nowhere and goes, yeah, I noticed that too. Oh, oh, really?
What do we got A wise guy now. Okay.
Yeah. So he ripped off the cape. Mm-hmm. And says, by all means, go see the owner.
And he puts her in the owner's chair.
Good. Mm-hmm.
So he goes, I sat down, opened up the newspaper, crossed my legs, says Don't mind me, I'll be over here [00:18:00] reading the news now. We'd be on our phones. We'd be on our phones watching this news. They have a
newspaper. When was this? 19?
It was a while ago. 1990, I think.
Oh yeah.
Uh, so after that owner is done doing the hair, the owner says, see, that's how it's supposed to be done, dude.
Oh
dude. Not cool.
Basically saying you don't know what you're doing.
Yes,
I do. I just showed you how to do it. Right,
right. Here you go.
Yeah. Oh, thank you.
Right, exactly. So I put Jan, or I put, I'm sorry, the client on the owner's book.
The owner's name is Jan. So, and the, the owner was like, wait. What? He goes, well, no one, not even my boss was gonna insult me in front of my client and get away with it. So now you just gained a new client?
Mm-hmm.
That's what I would've done too. I would've been like, yep. Yours. Now I don't feel like dealing with that shit.
Yep. So [00:19:00] the next time she comes in, the old lady walks inside, all nice and proud, ready for her haircut, and I just smile and play. Say, here you go, have a seat, and Jan will be right with you. She goes, wait a minute. She look totally confused, like, aren't you gonna do my hair? She goes, uh, no. He goes, why not?
He goes, well, anyone who questions my integrity in front of my coworker is no longer will, no, I will no longer be doing your hair. He goes, and she gets pissed. She goes, you can't do that to me. He goes, ah, but I just did. He goes, and she says, don't you treat me like a child. Oh, so now that the shoes not a on the other foot.
Now that she was on the other foot. Oh, you don't, it doesn't feel good, does it?
Look who's, yeah. Look who's talking there. Yeah.
So he said, he grabbed his coat, walked out, says, I'm going for a walk. He said, when he came back, the owner said, how was she? And she goes, oh, she was really pissed. He goes, oh [00:20:00] well.
Now it's your client to even, he tells the owner, he goes, 'cause no client and no salon owner gets to humiliate me in front of e in front of the entire salon. He goes, and that's how I fired that. And I, he's left the salon. He is no longer there. So dude, that is someone cool. Did you pull shit like that?
First of all, as soon as I heard she's had the same old lady haircut, I already know what needs to happen. Um, he needs to get out of there.
Oh, totally. Yeah.
Nobody needs to work in an old lady's one, you know, like unless you've just. Let
her go, get her hair done.
Open up on life.
Go to the old folks home.
They usually have a little hair salon inside there. Go eat your hair done there.
No, but I mean just like showing 'em up like that, you know, just like I know how to do it. I'll show you how to do it.
Right.
What is that shut
you've been inside the salon where someone in the chair next to you, the hairstylist is not getting it and the, and the client's trying to explain exactly what they want, but the hairstylist is not get, you don't butt [00:21:00] in and say like, oh, here's how you do it.
I would never do something like that. No. Even if I do know how to do it and I'm listening to the consultation and I'm like, oh, you're kind of missing the point. Not my client, not my consultation. That that up.
You could maybe do that in private. Maybe you don't just like blurt that out.
Only if they come and they ask me would I, would I, I wouldn't even, even in the back room and I said, Hey, I heard the con.
I wouldn't even tell 'em I heard the consultation. If they came to me and say like, Hey, did you hear that consultation? Then I would pick up the conversation from there, but I would never go through it, insert myself even in the back room. Pers I wouldn't do that. Personally, I've been an educator for a long time.
I've had other hairdressers come to me and say, Hey. Would you be willing to be part of this consultation? And I said, sure. And maybe I'd give like, Hey, this is probably what I would do. Um, I've also had some people try to push their client off onto me that way as well too. Kinda like, I don't wanna, I don't feel comfortable [00:22:00] doing this.
And then
No, I get that.
Yeah.
That's why they wanted you there. They're like, oh, you understand it. You should do it.
They say, yeah. I'm like, you should do it, God damn it. You're like,
yeah,
but I've also been, that's
happened to me. I just realized.
I've been in a situation where someone wants an updo and I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
I need to put you in someone, a chair.
I don't do updo.
I don't do updo either, so I'm like, I need you to go. I need to go somewhere to For
weddings
person. Yeah, not for me.
I don't even like weddings. I don't think anyone should get married anyway, so why would I want to do their hair? Right?
So Perry, I'm gonna have to one up.
You. I'm gonna apologize right now, but I'm have to one up you, because Jack and I used to work for a complete twat knuckle named Sean. And this guy owned a salon in Brentwood called Jawan Wan.
We're
saying name, and he's like, should [00:23:00] I bleep it out? He's a complete piece of shit. You know what I mean? And here's a, yeah, I'm gonna tell a true story though about what he needs to agree with that do with,
yeah.
So. Instead of going through and like butting in, before that even could happen, any new client that would come inside the salon, what he would do is go through and do a consultation with them first. So he would book the consultation with him and then he would book a haircut with you and he wouldn't just like, oh, here's the person I think you need to go and see.
The haircut was booked with you, but 10 minutes before that haircut, he had a consultation arranged with them. So he was the on the spot. He just to do consultations,
jumped in
before you even exactly
what, oh, you didn't even know about it. And no, until you hear that he, oh, what? 'cause it's his,
his
right guru.
[00:24:00] So he has to be the man and he's now telling everyone here's how, what you, what kind of haircut you need. Here's the, here's my recommendations and I have the right person for you. Well, it was already booked with me, or it was already booked with Kate or whoever it was booked with, but he had to be the person to do the consultation ahead of time and then would walk the client over to you and then tell you the haircut that you were gonna give them
because you would be lost without his knowledge.
Right?
Absolutely. I mean, I don't know what I would've done without him. Well,
yeah.
Right. So. I remember he did this to me. I didn't think he was gonna do with me. I thought maybe some of the newer people that he would do with, but he pulled this shit on me one day and he puts the client in my, and I, I was already booked, but it just so happened I got a new client in and yeah, he does, he comes over and he walks over, the client over, puts her in my chair and says, here's what she's, what she needs to have done.
Here's the haircut that I [00:25:00] have selected for her, and here's how to do it. And I turned around. I looked at him. I looked at her, and I was like, I have to completely disagree with that, and here's why. So I went into my spiel and he sat there nervous. And you remember he had that weird laugh. Like, ho Yeah. Oh, well, uh, I just thought it was a good idea to do this.
Hey buddy. Hey. Hey, buddy. And I went through the consultation with the client, showing her all these different, I know his, his voice is in my head now. I'm sorry.
God,
such a douch. But I go through the consultation with the client and she goes, that's what I want. And I'm like, oh, exactly. Because he wanted to give her bangs and do all this shit and give her this whole like, style change.
And I'm like, why? And I go, no. I'm like, your forehead's too small. It's gonna, it'll shrink your [00:26:00] face. And
where did he get that?
I, I have no idea.
Hold it out of his ass.
But I asked, he wanted to give this girl bangs. I'm like, you look like you're wearing a visor. I'm on your face, it'd be gone. And he was like, mortified that I said that.
And she starts laughing and so he's even more nervous and that stupid laugh comes out again. You know, so it's like, ho, ho, ho. What
do you mean? How did Oh yeah, that ho, ho,
ho,
so bad. So she selected my interpretation of what I wanted to do with the consultation, and I'm like, thank you. Got her share. Why did it
have be
afterwards?
I go, what was that?
Yeah,
and he goes, well, I'm doing consultations with all the clients. I go, why? I'm like, not only that though, I mean she was a new client, but she asked to come and see me. She was a referral. So why would you do a consultation with my client who was a referral to me? She's asking for my [00:27:00] opinion, not yours, ahead of mine.
What did he say?
He's looked at, he's kinda, he goes, whatever, and like walked away.
Whatever.
I think what really happened though, what really pissed him off is that one day I was inside the salon and I had this client come in and I realized the name did not match the person because Brooke Shields comes walking in to get her hair done.
She had an appointment with me and her PA made up a fake name, made the appointment, and in comes Brooke Shields. She, Brooke Shields gives a fake name, and I go, oh
yeah,
I'm doing your hair right. He got pissed off about that. I remember him standing. What mean, how did he get, he was standing. He, it didn't go to him.
He wanted to do her hair. And he was pissed off that I was getting these, some of these celebrity clients. Right. And he wanted to do their hair. So whenever he would see a celebrity's name on their books, he would switch it over to him so that way he would do it.
[00:28:00] Yeah.
And they out, he got outsmarted this time with a fake name.
Who booked it?
Uh, the manager. Susie booked it.
Yeah.
And so as I'm doing her
care,
he
knew that he would do that. And then.
No, the PA made a fake name. Susie didn't do it. Oh,
okay. The
PA did it ahead of time.
That's what I was,
sorry. That's
my point. Yeah.
So while I'm doing her hair, him and his wife Jennifer were standing at the front, staring at her.
Mm-hmm. And I could tell like, why is she in his chair? She should have been in Sean's chair. And Brooke looks at me and goes, who are these weird people staring? I go, that's the owners. And she goes, oh. She goes, that's really uncomfortable. I had to go and tell Susie, I'm like, you need to tell 'em to leave.
'cause she's feeling a little creeped out. Yeah. 'cause they're staring, they're staying at the front desk staring our way and I can tell exactly what it was. So his solution was to go through and have a consultation with every new client. So no [00:29:00] matter what, this opportunity would never pass him by. Yeah, so that way he could go through and do that person's hair and so he decided I'll just do the extra work and do all the consultations, and that way I can go through and decide who I should be doing and who my staff should be doing, because I should be doing all the A-list clients and my staff should be just going through doing their blow drives or my, the, after I cut their hair.
Yeah. Yeah.
You know, and so, oh my God. I'm pretty sure that's the, so sorry Perry. I kinda had a one up you a little bit on that one, you know, I mean, but don't let the owner push you around if that's, that's why we all left.
Yeah.
Because he was such a piece of shit
that way. I mean, I'm shocked it's been open still.
Um, but
I think there're longing running outta that place.
You know, who would do the consultations like that, I think is Jose Iber? Mm, he would. Did
he do that?
Yeah, I think he did. Yeah. Oh. Um, because there was a while he would only do the celebrities that he wanted. Mm-hmm. [00:30:00] And he didn't really work in the salon all that much.
He would do consultations only. And then he decided, you know, like who? Who went to who.
Okay.
So, so
it was a very nineties way of doing hair. Yeah.
Where he got it.
Yeah. More than likely. '
cause his, his other salon is near his, right?
Yep. Oh yeah. It was, yeah.
Yeah,
exactly. So,
oh, and he wanted to be Jose Bear.
Yeah.
Oh, he wishes he would.
Yeah, you guys, he's definitely, we all do. He's definitely not, in fact, more than I'm gonna go through and bleep out his name now, so you can't even look him up. So you won't even pay him any attention. 'cause I probably we're probably giving him a little bit more than he actually needs, so.
Yeah. Yep.
Bye Sean.
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